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ASAP: An Azimuth-Priority Strip-Based Search Approach to Planar Microphone Array DOA Estimation in 3D

Ming Huang, Shuting Xu, Leying Yang, Huanzhang Hu, Yujie Zhang, Jiang Wang, Yu Liu, Hao Zhao, He Kong ยท 2026

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is an important task in microphone array processing and many downstream applications. The steered response power with phase transform (SRP-PHAT) method has been wโ€ฆ

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Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting enabled Semantic Coding for Real-Time Immersive Video Communications

Dingxi Yang, Wenqi Guo, Yue Liu, Jungong Han, Zhijin Qin ยท 2026

Real-time immersive video communications, particularly high-fidelity 3D telepresence, necessitates a synergistic balance between instantaneous dynamic scene reconstruction and high-efficiency data traโ€ฆ

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ProDrive: Proactive Planning for Autonomous Driving via Ego-Environment Co-Evolution

Chuyao Fu, Shengzhe Gan, Zhuoli Ouyang, Yuhan Rui, Xiaowei Chi, Sirui Han, Jiankun Wang, Hong Zhang ยท 2026

End-to-end autonomous driving planners typically generate trajectories from current observations alone. However, real-world driving is highly dynamic, and such reactive planning cannot anticipate futuโ€ฆ

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A Scaled Three-Vehicle Platooning Platform

Kaiyue Lu, Qiaoxuan Zhang, Yukun Lu ยท 2026

Vehicle platooning has attracted increasing attention as a promising approach to improve traffic efficiency, energy consumption, and roadway safety through coordinated multi-vehicle operation. A key cโ€ฆ

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A Class AAA Solar Testbed for Reproducible Long-Term Characterization of Energy-Harvesting Systems

Lukas Schulthess, Andreas Ratz, Michele Magno, Philipp Mayer ยท 2026

Energy harvesting promises maintenance-free operation of wireless sensor nodes but introduces strong dependencies on stochastic and deployment-specific environmental conditions. In particular, solar-pโ€ฆ

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An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers

Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. Davidson ยท 2026

Robotic fruit harvesting often fails to reliably detect whether a fruit has been successfully picked, limiting efficiency and increasing crop damage. This problem is difficult due to compliant fruit aโ€ฆ

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VISION-SLS: Safe Perception-Based Control from Learned Visual Representations via System Level Synthesis

Antoine P. Leeman, Shuyu Zhan, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Glen Chou ยท 2026

We propose VISION-SLS, a method for nonlinear output-feedback control from high-resolution RGB images which provides robust constraint satisfaction guarantees under calibrated uncertainty bounds despiโ€ฆ

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Passage-Aware Structural Mapping for RGB-D Visual SLAM

Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Saad Ejaz, David Perez Saura, Asier Bikandi-Noya, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Holger Voos ยท 2026

Doorways and passages are critical structural elements for indoor robot navigation, yet they remain underexplored in modern Visual SLAM (VSLAM) frameworks. This paper presents a passage-aware structurโ€ฆ

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Comparative Evaluation of Modern Deep Learning Methodologies for Portfolio Optimization

Samuel Ozechi, Banjo Francis, Wisdom Yakanu, Joe Wayne Byers ยท 2026

This study proposes a portfolio optimization framework that integrates advanced deep learning architectures with traditional financial models to enhance risk-adjusted performance. Using historical datโ€ฆ

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NL-COMM-Sat: Breaking the Direct Device-to-Satellite Communication Barrier via "Aggressive" Non-Orthogonal Transmissions and Non-Linear Processing

Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, Chathura Jayawardena ยท 2026

Direct Device-to-Satellite (D2S) communications, which enable direct satellite connectivity with unmodified user equipment (UE), not only expand global coverage but also reshape the evolution of futurโ€ฆ

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Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment

Kaijun Zhou, Qiwei Chen, Da Peng, Zhiyang Li, Xijun Li, Jinyu Gu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are promising for generalist robot control, but on-robot deployment is bottlenecked by real-time inference under tight cost and energy budgets. Most prior evaluatioโ€ฆ

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Pedestrians play chicken with an autonomous vehicle

Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox ยท 2026

Automated vehicles (AVs) are commonly programmed to yield unconditionally to pedestrians in the interest of safety. However, this design choice can give rise to the Freezing Robot Problem in which pedโ€ฆ

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Projected Attainable Speed Space: A Driving Efficiency Metric Connecting Instantaneous Evaluation to Travel Time

Xiaohua Zhao, Zhaowei Huang, Chen Chen, Haiyi Yang ยท 2026

Inefficient driving behaviors, such as overly conservative yielding, remain a key obstacle to deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Instantaneous driving efficiency metrics are crucial for self-driโ€ฆ

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AI-Native Autonomous Infrastructure (ANAI): A Formal Framework for the Next General-Purpose Technology

Hidir Selcuk Nogay ยท 2026

Artificial intelligence is increasingly described as a candidate next generation general purpose technology (GPT). However, existing interpretations predominantly emphasize performance scaling rather โ€ฆ

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Event-based SLAM Benchmark for High-Speed Maneuvers

Sheng Zhong, Junkai Niu, Guillermo Gallego, Kaizhen Sun, Yang Yi, Zhiqiang Miao, Dewen Hu, Yaonan Wang, Davide Scaramuzza, Yi Zhou ยท 2026

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle visual tasks inโ€ฆ

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Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Evaluation

Zaid Mahboob, Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng ยท 2026

This paper studies the problem of robot performance evaluation, focusing on how to obtain accurate and efficient estimates of real-world behavior under severe constraints on physical experimentation. โ€ฆ

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Extracting Exact Lie Derivatives Without Backpropagation: A Dual Compiler for Neural Control Barrier Functions

Mohammadreza Kamaldar ยท 2026

Deploying neural-network control barrier functions (CBFs) on embedded hardware requires evaluating the barrier value and its Lie derivatives along the system vector fields at every control cycle. The โ€ฆ

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Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms

Qi Li, Bo Yin, Weiqi Huang, Ruhao Liu, Bojun Zou, Runpeng Yu, Jingwen Ye, Weihao Yu, Xinchao Wang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shift raises a new class of safety challenges, stemming from the embodied nature of VLA systems,โ€ฆ

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PhysCodeBench: Benchmarking Physics-Aware Symbolic Simulation of 3D Scenes via Self-Corrective Multi-Agent Refinement

Tianyidan Xie, Peiyu Wang, Yuyi Qian, Yuxuan Wang, Rui Ma, Ying Tai, Song Wu, Qian Wang, Lanjun Wang, Zili Yi ยท 2026

Physics-aware symbolic simulation of 3D scenes is critical for robotics, embodied AI, and scientific computing, requiring models to understand natural language descriptions of physical phenomena and tโ€ฆ

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PILOT: One Physics-Integrated Generation Framework to Unify 2D and 3D Radio Map Construction

Weiming Huang, Hao Sun, Junting Chen ยท 2026

Unified 2D and 3D radio map construction supports network planning, wireless digital twins, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. In urban environments, blockage, reflection, and diffractionโ€ฆ

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